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Paul Klee, designer

Verso: Untitled, ca. 1919-20

Description

Maker

Title

Verso: Untitled

Year

ca. 1919-20

Medium

Oil paint on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 47.9 x 38.6 cm (18 7/8 x 15 3/16 inches)

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift in memory of William Warren Orswell

Object Number

46.470B

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Dreams and Nightmares

November 5, 2004 - January 23, 2005

When painting Columbarium, Klee reused a cardboard mount on which he had previously depicted a standing figure. After pasting a thin layer of tissue over the earlier image, Klee then started Columbarium. In the early 1960s, conservators discovered the earlier image and carefully removed the cardboard mount to reveal the figure which had been invisible for decades. The figure is similar to Klee’s images of a standing magician done in 1919 and 1920, often interpreted by scholars as mystical self-portraits.

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